A suspect in a residential burglary and sexual assault is at Stanford Hospital recovering from injuries he received in a 30-foot fall onto a roadway while fleeing police, Menlo Park police said.

Lamar Dekari Stevens, 36, of San Jose, is accused of breaking into a home in the 1000 block of Ringwood Avenue in Menlo Park at 4:50 a.m. Friday and holding a resident — a man in his 60s — at knife point. The victim said the suspect sexually assaulted him and then robbed him, before the resident was able to escape and call police from a neighbor’s home, according to a news release. Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini said the department is not releasing what was stolen or whether it was recovered.

Police arrived within minutes of the call, and at 4:55 a.m. observed a man matching the victim’s description on the Ringwood pedestrian overcrossing. When the suspect attempted to flee, a K-9 was deployed to detain him but the suspect climbed over a fence and jumped roughly 30 feet, landing on the roadway of Van Buren Road and sustaining “incapacitating injuries,” the release said.

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Stevens was taken into custody without further incident. Emergency responders were called to the scene to provide aid and transported him to Stanford Hospital. Bertini said the suspect will require surgery and will likely remain at the hospital for a week or more, meaning that a Menlo Park police officer — or one from a neighboring agency, if the department can work out an arrangement — will need to be stationed at the hospital until Stevens is released to be transported to county jail.

“He’s going to be there a while,” Bertini said. “Right now we’re scrambling” to schedule officers for hospital duty and “polling other cities to see if we can borrow officers.”

Stevens was arrested for six felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, oral copulation by use of force, burglary, residential robbery and assault with the intent to commit sexual assault. Police also determined he is on active state parole for robbery.

Police did not provide a booking photo of Stevens. Booking photos are not taken until suspects are processed at the county jail, according to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Salvador Zuno. As of Wednesday evening, the suspect was still in the hospital.